Writes of Way 🛣🚏🗺🧭Makes me wonder if there are any commonly mispronounced Seattle street names... https://boingboing.net/2023/02/15/watch-people-in-san-francisco-try-to-say-san-francisco-street-names.html #StreetNames #SanFrancisco #Seattle #pronunciation #mispronunciation
Mac Justice@writesofway I grew up near SW Charlestown St, which everybody in my family calls “Charleston” like the SC city, but as I got older I noticed bus drivers and navigation apps usually fully enunciate the “town”, so I’m not sure which is the more correct version!
minusavenue@macjustice @writesofway try New Orleans:
- Tchoupitoulas
- Burgundy
- Calliope
- Chartres
- Orleans St. (not pronounced the same way as 'New Orleans')
- Tchoupitoulas
- Burgundy
- Calliope
- Chartres
- Orleans St. (not pronounced the same way as 'New Orleans')
@minusavenue @macjustice speaking of Tchopitoulas, I like this sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchoupitoulas_Street#Etymology
@macjustice I always figured it was pronounced -town instead of -ton but don’t know what was originally intended. On my list of things to find out!
(((Benjamin Donguk Lukoff)))@macjustice @writesofway Now this is very odd. When using my personal account, I can’t see the original post. When using my Writes of Way account, of course I can. Wonder why that is. Perhaps I accidentally set the post up that way? Any ideas?
@macjustice @writesofway I wonder if it’s just that social.Seattle.wa.us and social.ridetrans.it are having trouble communicating for some reason.
Phil in Seattle@lukobe I'm seeing issues with some social.ridetrans.it posts not propagating to my other account, so I suspect there's some sort of communication issue as well.
Heads up to @Andres4NY & @oowm .
When trying to access your writesofway account from here.
"503 Remote data could not be fetched"
Wes M.@kingrat @lukobe @Andres4NY I don't see any outbound connectivity failures but that, of course, doesn't preclude inbound failures so I will test more.
@kingrat @lukobe @Andres4NY OK, figured it out again. I cannot *wait* until I'm not on Cogent transit. Playing whack-a-mole with their routes is annoying.